Summit County Historical Society, Akron, 1943

Photograph of (left to right) Edwin W. Brouse, Joe Thomas, and Senator Charles Dick in front of a tree that John Brown planted in front of his home at Copley and Diagonal Roads in Akron, Ohio. Mrs. Charles Perkins left the John Brown home and $10,000 to help maintain it to the Summit County Historical Society in her will; the deed had just been given to the society at the time of this photograph.

Click tabs to swap between content that is broken into logical sections.

Photograph of (left to right) Edwin W. Brouse, Joe Thomas, and Senator Charles Dick in front of a tree that John Brown planted in front of his home at Copley and Diagonal Roads in Akron, Ohio. Mrs. Charles Perkins left the John Brown home and $10,000 to help maintain it to the Summit County Historical Society in her will; the deed had just been given to the society at the time of this photograph.

This collection includes photographs of Akron and Summit County, Ohio, selected from the archives of the Akron Beacon Journal and contributed through a partnership between the Akron Beacon Journal and the Akron-Summit County Public Library. Images may include crop marks, blacking, opaquing, painting, retouching and other enhancements made prior to publication, including markings that may obscure or revise original elements of the photographs. These markings and enhancements have been left intact intentionally.